{"product_id":"intermission","title":"Owen Martell: Intermission [2014] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCaptivating and hypnotic writing from a prize-winning novelist, whose prose is reminiscent of Marilynne Robinson's and Paul Harding's.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNew York, June 1961. The Bill Evans Trio, featuring twenty-five year old Scott LaFaro on bass, play a series of concerts at the Village Vanguard that will go down in musical history. Shortly afterwards, LaFaro is killed in a car accident, and Evans disappears. \u003ci\u003eIntermission\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of what happens next.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn measured, evocative prose, \u003ci\u003eIntermission\u003c\/i\u003e takes a period from the life of one of America's great artists and fashions it into a fiction of extraordinary imaginative skill and ambition. The novel inhabits the lives of four people in orbit around a tragedy, presenting an intense and moving portrait of the burden of grief, and of a man lost to his family and to himself. It is also a conjuring of a pivotal moment in American music and culture, and a unique representation of the jazz scene in the early 1960s. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIntermission \u003c\/i\u003eis a novel of pure control and power, certain to establish Owen Martell as one of the most promising young writers in Britain today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Martell, Owen","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":53174609772883,"sku":"9780099558828","price":16.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":48095606604115,"sku":"XV80099558828","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":49039201534291,"sku":"XG80099558828","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/martell-owen-owen-martell-intermission-2014-paperback-1225723467.jpg?v=1772729856","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/intermission","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}